Barrette with suede, ultra suede or leather non-slip feature

ABSTRACT

‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and tension bar to create the necessary tension to hold the barrette in place when closed around hair. Attempting to hold such barrette in place in hair requires the barrette to be constructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic. However, in reality, such barrettes constructed out of metal or plastic typically slip out of hair due to the poor friction level between metal and hair, as well as plastic and hair. In accordance with embodiments of the invention the tension bar, or frame of the barrette that comes into contact with tension bar, is covered with suede, ultra suede or leather. The effect is that of providing a non-slip feature to any ‘French-style’ barrette used to hold hair in place.

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY

‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and atension bar to create the tension required to hold the barrette in placewhen the barrette is closed around hair. Tension bars usually requirespring-like properties to hold a shape and a ‘memory’ to return bar tothe original shape when pressure causes this original shape to change.To accomplish these spring-like properties, tension bars—and entirebarrettes for that matter—are normally constructed out of rigid yetflexible material, like metal or plastic. However, such barrettesconstructed out of metal or plastic typically slip out of hair due tothe poor friction level between metal and hair, as well as plastic andhair. In accordance with embodiments of the invention the tension bar orframe of the barrette that comes into contact with tension bar, iscovered with suede, ultra suede or leather. The effect is that ofproviding a non-slip feature to any ‘French-style’ barrette used to holdhair in place.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1. Barrette—3-quarter view: shows the 3-quarter view of a‘French-style’ barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has beenapplied to the tension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede orleather may also be applied to the frame of the barrette that comes intocontact with the tension bar to produce the same effect.)

FIG. 2. Barrette—open view: shows the open view of a ‘French-style’barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has been applied to thetension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede or leather may also beapplied to the frame of the barrette that comes into contact with thetension bar to produce the same effect.)

FIG. 3. Barrette—closed view: shows the closed view of a ‘French-style’barrette where suede, ultra suede or leather has been applied to thetension bar of the barrette. (Suede, ultra suede or leather may also beapplied to the frame of the barrette that comes into contact with thetension bar to produce the same effect.)

‘French-style’ hair barrettes typically require a two-piece frame and atension bar to create the tension required to hold the barrette in placewhen the barrette is closed around hair. Tension bars usually requirespring-like properties to hold a shape and a ‘memory’ to return bar tothe original shape when pressure causes this original shape to change.To accomplish these spring-like properties, tension bars—and entirebarrettes for that matter—are normally constructed out of rigid yetflexible material, like metal or plastic.

1. That ‘French-style’ barrettes constructed out of metal or plastictypically slip out of hair due to the poor friction level between metaland hair, as well as plastic and hair.
 2. That ‘French-style’ barrettesconstructed out of rigid yet flexible material, like metal or plastic,whose tension bar, or frame of the barrette that comes into contact withthe tension bar, is covered by suede, ultra suede or leather, typicallystay put in hair due to the high friction level between suede, ultrasuede or leather and hair.
 3. That the process of applying suede, ultrasuede or leather to any metal or plastic ‘French-style’ barrette at thepoint it makes contact with hair is a vast improvement on thefunctionality of such barrette to hold hair in place without slippage.